noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prisoner of conscience (= someone who is in prison because they have followed their beliefs about what is right or morally good to do )
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Vaclav Havel was a prisoner of conscience who later became president of Czechoslovakia.
escaped prisoner
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an escaped prisoner
hold sb prisoner/hostage/captive
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A senior army officer was held hostage for four months.
political prisoner
prisoner of conscience
prisoner of war
taken prisoner
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Both boys were taken prisoner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
escaped
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The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner .
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But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger, an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder.
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The escaped prisoner saw us and screamed as he turned to run.
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They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information.
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That morning Sir Henry and Barrymore argued about Selden, the escaped prisoner .
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Deserters? Escaped prisoners of war?
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He is hiding from some one, too, but he is not an escaped prisoner .
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We were nothing to do with the prison camp or the escaped prisoners .
fellow
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Fourteen out of 15 of his fellow prisoners died.
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Now the din from my fellow prisoners multiplied.
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In Long Kesh Prison, fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk.
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Truong Chinh and most of his fellow prisoners were released.
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He preached to and instructed his fellow prisoners .
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Escobar escaped from the ranch-style prison with his brother Roberto Escobar and eight fellow prisoners .
other
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He joined every other prisoner in the mess hall for breakfast each morning at six-thirty.
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They picked him and one other as their prisoners , and let the others free to spread the news.
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He was made a trusty and the other prisoners got on well with him.
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Eddie Browning says he's angry over long delays facing other prisoners seeking appeal hearings.
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He said he was not treated badly and that he was with other political prisoners .
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The wrongfully convicted prisoner will be treated identically to any other prisoner by prison officers.
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One in five were scared of other prisoners .
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Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
political
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There are some 1,800 political prisoners .
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In 1980, Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return.
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The goal is modest, like winning the release of a political prisoner 2.
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Adopt a family whose breadwinner is a political prisoner or has been executed.
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But he was not the criminal type. Political prisoner ?
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Growing pressure for democratic change On Oct. 3 the Appeal Court overturned the conviction and sentencing of two prominent political prisoners .
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Political parties are trying to claim back property confiscated more than 60 years ago, and political prisoners are demanding financial compensation.
taken
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In addition to this price for their success, the Allies had lost 169 raiders killed and about 200 taken prisoner .
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Ninety-one thousand taken prisoner including twenty-four generals.
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remand
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Keeping remand prisoners in police stations is another matter and is reprehensible.
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Trained negotiators pursuaded a remand prisoner to release the man. unharmed.
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The problem of remand prisoners , is particularly acute.
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In addition, more remand prisoners were held in police or court cells.
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If 1988 is any guideline only 60 percent of these remand prisoners will eventually receive custodial sentences.
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For remand prisoners in particular, whose numbers increased sharply during the year, conditions were particularly poor.
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Around 700 warders are stationed at the Belfast jail which houses loyalist and republican remand prisoners and only a few sentenced prisoners.
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In the case of remand prisoners there is often no opportunity to work, even if they wish to do so.
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allow
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Detective Constable Julie Bignall was reported for allowing a prisoner to plait her hair.
become
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As people avoid more and more they become a prisoner of their anxiety.
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I never wanted to become a prisoner of my overhead.
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Researchers risk becoming prisoners , rather than critics, of government and its agents.
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I was becoming a prisoner of my overhead.
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She and her husband were shocked and appalled and wondered if they would become prisoners in their own home.
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Fernand Braudel was serving as a lieutenant on the Rhine frontier and became a prisoner of war.
bring
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Not only did he needlessly place himself in danger, but no charges were brought against his prisoners .
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The drive to bring justice to the prisoners is attracting more mainland support.
escape
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He traded places with a young married man, who was to be slaughtered in retribution for an escaped prisoner .
free
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In three days of releases in early September 465 prisoners were reported to have been freed .
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Who set me free - warder or prisoner - I have no idea.
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The rules are simple in that all you have to do is to move the blocks around to free the prisoner .
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It worried Lord Auckland that a court could now refuse to free a prisoner whom his creditor wished to see released.
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Farc commanders said the freed prisoners would not return to combat.
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She had decided not to free the prisoners , so now she had to see what happened to the passengers.
hold
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It was a gesture of strength to the man who held them prisoner , if nothing else.
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The camp held about 250 prisoners .
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Then they are trucked long distances to toil on remote plantations where they are held prisoner and compelled to work at gunpoint.
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The population has always been held as prisoners and kept dependent upon others.
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Security at prisons holding category A prisoners is already very tight, with rigorous searching procedures.
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It is certified to hold 58 prisoners .
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A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners .
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The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed.
keep
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And we keep him prisoner here till he signs.
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Usually they keep the prisoners first in the jail on Danilowiczalski Street.
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She told how he kept her prisoner in the bunker for a week when she refused to pay up.
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He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron.
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She was kept prisoner in Edinburgh and then in a castle on an islet in Loch Leven near Kinross.
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He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch.
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It wouldn't have kept the prisoners in, but they could have gone anyway had they chosen to do so.
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His pleasure is keeping me prisoner .
release
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The Robe of Human Hands ... the enchantment that would release the prisoners ... Yes.
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The king also released any prisoner that Leonard went to visit.
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There is no historical evidence for the custom of releasing a prisoner at festival time, although such an amnesty was possible.
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Not believing Mays was gone, the mob ransacked the jail, releasing white prisoners .
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The first step needed for building confidence is for the regime to release all political prisoners .
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Amnesty International is also harnessing text messages to apply speedy pressure on governments to release political prisoners .
take
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Rudolf Lenzner and his crew baling out to be taken prisoner when the bomber crashed at Bur Marrad.
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Just watch out: the robots take no prisoners .
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Jim Almonds had become separated from the rest and was taken prisoner .
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Jarauta was taken prisoner , and his identity became known when he was addressed by one of the other captives.
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Having been taken prisoner by Sicilians, he served as a galley-slave for two years.
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Shortly thereafter, the confessed assassin was taken prisoner .
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Only 120 of the 3400 rebels taken prisoner were executed and at least 40 of these were deserters from the royal army.
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I took my prisoner to my secret cave on the other side of the island and gave him food and drink.
treat
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In Central News tonight On trial: Did a policeman treat a prisoner like an animal?.
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He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the soldiers were either killed or taken prisoner .
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enemy prisoners
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Her father spent three years as a prisoner of war in Korea.
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It's a science fiction story about people being taken to another planet as prisoners.
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Mann was held prisoner in the back of the Chevrolet and told she was going to be killed.
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My parents were very strict. Sometimes I felt like a prisoner in my own home.
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The prisoners are allowed an hour's exercise every day.
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The county has 90 prisoners in a jail designed for 29.
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The state now has 152,000 prisoners in 32 prisons.
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There have been reports of the systematic torture of political prisoners.
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Thousands of political prisoners remain imprisoned, frequently as a result of unfair trials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A prisoner release organisation was helping him find accommodation.
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But Eskel Gorov was a prisoner in their hands, and Gorov was not a hostage to lose.
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But the typist turns out to be a prisoner serving a sentence for rape.
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The prisoners can each be sure of benefiting if they have a previously agreed pact never to confess, whatever the circumstances.
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The prisoners who went insane were those who were illiterate and without imagination.
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The courtrooms were on the upper floors, and the prisoners were brought into the service bay.
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We have lost a division general and two or three regiments of our soldiers as prisoners.